DEPARTMENT OF
2015-2016
ENGLISH
WWW.GLENDON.YORKU.CA
2275 BAYVIEW AVE, TORONTO, ONTARIO M4N 3M6
ENGLISH 2015-2016
Glendon’s English
Department is committed to the
pursuit of excellence in teaching
and research within a bilingual
small-size university with a
strong sense of community.
ENGLISH 2015-2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CONTACT US
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ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
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OUR PROFESSORS
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COURSE LISTINGS
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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INDIVIDUAL STUDIES/HONOURS THESIS GUIDELINES
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CERTIFICATE IN THE DISCIPLINE OF TEACHING ENGLISH AS AN
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (D-TEIL)
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Office: C216 York Hall
Chair: TBA
Telephone: (416) 487-6713
Fax: (416) 487 6850
E-mail: [email protected]
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DEPARTMENTAL SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
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ACADEMIC ADVISING & RESOURCES
Administrative Assistant: Patricia Muñoz
C 217 York Hall / (416) 736-2100 ext. 88175
Administrative Secretary: Chrystal Smith
C 216 York Hall / (416) 736-2100 ext. 88417
Faculty Secretary: Pat Chung
C216 York Hall / (416) 736-2100 ext. 88160
This cover features what may be the only known likeness of William Shakespeare
painted during his lifetime. The “Sanders portrait” turned up in Montreal in 2001
in the property of one of the distant, Canadian, relatives of the painter, John
Sanders.
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ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
Studying English at Glendon is different from studying it at many other Canadian
universities because all aspects of the English language and its contexts are
considered worthy of examination. The Department encompasses five areas—
literature, linguistics and language study, drama (which studies plays as both
literary and performative texts), English as a Second Language (ESL), the
Certificate in the Discipline of Teaching English as an International Language.
(DTEIL).
Central here, as elsewhere, is the study of literary texts that many in the English
speaking world consider important enough to pass on to subsequent generations.
Some of these texts require students to become familiar with earlier forms of the
language—Old English, Chaucer’s English, Shakespeare's English, for example;
other, more contemporary texts require students to understand such non print
media as radio, film and video. The appreciation of all these texts can be deepened
and enhanced by studies in literary criticism and literary history, and by a wide
range of linguistics courses.
As an active user of language, the student in Glendon's English Department has
opportunities not only for interpretation of texts but also for their creation. Writing
and reading in a variety of forms, including dramatic literature, how to teach
English in a non-English environment: these are integral parts of Glendon's
Programme in English. The presence of many students learning to use English as a
second-language, and speakers of English learning to use French adds an extra
dimension to studying English at Glendon. Students interested in taking ESL
courses are directed to the ESL mini-calendar.
The Glendon English Department maintains its integrated approach to the study of
language and literature through its curriculum. All students majoring in English are
required to complete the three components of the Foundation Set:
1. EN 1602 6.00 The Literary Text: Genres & Approaches
This course helps students develop the ability which is basic to all their studies in
the discipline of English: the habit of close, careful reading of texts. Students will
also learn how to discuss and write about the texts they read.
2. EN 2633 6.00 The Literary Tradition of English
This course builds on the abilities acquired in English 1602 6.00, and introduces
students to the study of texts throughout the history of English literature in the
British Isles.
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3. EN 1601 6.00 The Structure of English OR EN 1603 6.00 introduction to
linguistics
These two introductory linguistics courses give students a basic knowledge of
linguistic theory and linguistic description. In introducing students to linguistics,
EN 1603 6.00 draws on data from English and also from other languages, while EN
1601 6.00 focuses specifically on the data of the English language.
N.B. candidates for the D-TEIL certificate are required to complete EN 1601 6.00.
To help students in planning their academic programmes in English, other English
courses are numbered in accordance with the principles described below.
Program Matrix: the courses in the English program are designed to fit into a
four-year sequence of increasing specialization in English studies, and include both
literary and linguistics courses. Language courses within the Glendon English
Department focus attention on linguistic approaches to discourse, including literary
discourse, and English (es) as a language. English courses on the 1000-level
provide introductions to the fields of literary study and linguistics. Literary courses
at the 2000-level provide transhistorical and transcultural surveys of literature and
types of literature, as well as the "tools" of the craft of critical thinking and writing.
2000-level language courses ground students in specific core and related areas in
linguistics. Literary courses on the 3000-level study in depth historical periods and
movements in the development of national literatures, as well as overviews of
critical theory. 3000-level linguistics courses focus on key theoretical and applied
approaches to linguistics across social contexts and speech communities. Literary
courses on the 4000-level focus on special topics inside the historical, cultural,
national, and theoretical units studied on the 3000-level, while 4000-level
linguistics courses engage students in specialized topics in theory and English as a
language.
Honours thesis and directed reading courses are designed by the professor and
student together, with a copy of the course description being filed with the
Academic Services. Because offerings at the 4000 level change regularly, students
should consult with their advisors.
Graduates of Glendon's English Department do well in graduate studies, the
theatre, teaching in Canada or abroad, in government and business, and in a variety
of communications and media related careers in Canada and elsewhere. The real
rewards of English Studies at Glendon, however, lie in a greater understanding and
appreciation of a world saturated with language.
For detailed program requirements, please refer to the Undergraduate Calendar
applicable to your year of entry into the program.
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OUR PROFESSORS
BENSON, JAMES D.
DJORDJEVIC, IGOR
AB (Hamilton Col), MA (Berkeley), PhD (University of Toronto) Senior Scholar.
Jim Benson’s areas of interest are systemic functional linguistics, nineteenthcentury British and American literature, literary stylistics, and discourse. Books:
The Language People Really Use; Meaning is Choice; English Dialects; Styles of
English; Talking/Writing; Systemic Perspectives on Discourse, vol 1: Selected
Theoretical Papers. Systemic Perspectives on Discourse, vol 2: Selected Applied
Papers . . . ; Systemic Functional Approaches to Discourse (all co-authored or coedited with William Greaves); Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective (co-edited
with William Greaves and Michael Cummings), Functional Dimensions of ApeHuman Discourse (co-edited with William Greaves). Currently working with Sue
Savage-Rumbaugh and others at The Great Ape Trust of Iowa, on Bonobo-Human
discourse.
BA (State University of New York at Binghamton), MA, PhD (University of
Toronto), Associate Professor. His areas of interest are early modern literature,
fifteenth-century literature, and the literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth
century. His particular research interests are the rhetoric of English nationalism
(or, “Commonwealth Discourse”), in early modern writing, and especially the role
of history and historical memory in Renaissance literature which informs his book
Holinshed’s Nation: Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles
(Ashgate, 2010), and a chapter on Shakespeare as a reader of Holinshed’s
Chronicles in the Handbook of Holinshed’s Chronicles (Oxford University Press,
2012). His publications also include articles on Shakespeare, early modern, and
eighteenth-century literature in Comparative Drama, Swift Studies, The
Shandean, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era,
and Notes and Queries.
CLIPSHAM, DAVID J.
FRASER, CAROL
BA (Oxford), Senior Scholar. Medieval language and literature is his area of
specialization, but he maintains an interest in the whole field of English Studies.
His current work is focused on Chaucer and on the continuity between late
medieval and early modern literary culture.
EdD (OISE/University of Toronto), MA TESL (Montreal), MEd, Reading
(MCGILL), Senior Scholar. Professor Fraser teaches courses in the ESL, Linguistics,
and Masters in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Programmes. Area of particular
interest is the development of advanced reading and writing abilities in ESL
students.
DAVIDSON, MARY CATHERINE
BA (UBC) M.A. Ph.D. (University of Toronto) Associate Professor. Professor
Davidson teaches linguistics and language studies courses in medieval and modern
English and specializes in the history of the English language. Her book
Medievalism, Multilingualism and Chaucer (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010) analyzes
multilingualism and language contact in Chaucer’s England and modern
perceptions of medieval English. Her articles on Medieval and Modern English
have appeared in Neophilologus, Modern Philology, Studies in Medievalism, Early
Modern Literary Studies, and the collection Opening Windows on Texts and
Discourses of the Past. She is co-editor of the collection The Languages of Nation
(Multilingual Matters, 2012) and her current book project focuses on globalization,
multilingualism and Anglophone language attitudes in Hollywood film.
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GREAVES, WILLIAM (SEPTEMBER 3, 1935-SEPTEMBER 27, 2014)
The Glendon English Department is saddened by the loss of Professor William
Greaves, who passed away on September 27, 2014. Bill joined Michael Gregory’s
newly formed English Department nearly 50 years ago. His energetic presence in
College life, as a colleague and teacher who inspired countless students to succeed,
was felt for a decade after his retirement.
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GUTWINSKI, WALDEMAR
MANDEL, ANN
LLM, MA (Warsaw), PhD (Connecticut), Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar.
courses most frequently taught: Introduction to Linguistics, Approaches to English
Grammar, Modern English, Discourse Analysis, Literary Stylistics, Advanced
English Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Theory. Major Publications: Cohesion in
Literary texts, Mouton (The Hague, Paris), 1976; The Eighth Lacus Forum, 1981
(co-edited with Grace Jolly. Hornbean Press, Columbia, South Carolina). He is also
a professional pilot (holder of a Canadian Airline Pilot License) and a flight
instructor, teaching flying at Toronto Airways, for the past 33 years.
BA (Alberta), MA (UBC), Senior Scholar. Courses most frequently taught: Canadian
Literature, Modern Canadian Literature, The Literary Text, Contemporary
Literature, The Political Novel. Major Publications: Measures: Robert Creeley's
Poetry, influential articles in the field of Canadian literature, and several poetry
anthologies.
HOPKINS, ANTHONY
BA, MA (UBC), Senior Scholar. Courses most frequently taught: Literary Texts,
Canadian Literature, 20th Century British Literature, Contemporary Heroism
(Humanities). Former editor of Indirections and The English Quarterly. Major
Publications: An Outline of the Plays of Edward Albee; Three Poets; Songs from
the Front and Rear: Canadian Servicemen's Songs of World War II; articles and
conference papers on television (particularly on M.A.S.H.) and film as popular
culture.
MARTIN, IAN
BA, MA (University of Toronto). Associate Professor of English. Coordinator of
York Certificate programme in the Discipline of Teaching English as an
International Language (Cert D-TEIL). Courses most frequently taught: ESL (all
levels), Teaching English as an International Language, Studies in Canadian
English, and English as a World Language. Major publications: An Invitation to
Explore ESP (RELC Press, Singapore, 1992); Aajjiqatigiingniq Vols 1-3
(Department of Education, Nunavut, 2000). Research interests: international
English, intercultural aspects of language learning, motivation, language teacher
development, language ecology, indigenous language revitalization.
HUTCHISON, ANN M.
MORGAN, BRIAN
BA (Michigan), MA (Oxford), MA and PhD (University of Toronto), Associate
Professor. Courses most frequently taught: the Literary Tradition of English,
Chaucer, Medieval Literature, Medieval Women's Spirituality, Medieval Women's
Writing. Major publications: Editing Women; The Life of Mary Champney, A
Bridgettine Nun under the Rule of Queen Elizabeth I; a number of articles on Syon
Abbey, the English house of the order of St Birgitta of Sweden, and on the
devotional practices of its members.
BA (York University), MA, PhD (OISE/University of Toronto). Associate Professor.
His research interests include language and identity, language teacher education,
and critical (multi) literacies, particularly in relation to EAP, ESL and EFL issues
and settings. He is a co-editor (with Alastair Pennycook and Ryuko Kubota) of the
Critical Language and Literacy book series published by Multilingual Matters. His
first book, The ESL Classroom (1998), is published by University of Toronto Press.
RUSSELL, DANIELLE
MACAULAY, MARCIA
BA, PhD (UBC), Associate Professor of English. Courses taught: Introduction to
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Varieties of English,
Narrative Theory. Major publications: Processing Varieties in English: An
Examination of Oral and Written Speech Across Genres (1990) as well as articles on
Stylistics, Pragmatics and gender and language. She is the co-creator and coorganizer of NAWPRA (North American Workshop on Pragmatics) and the coeditor of Pragmatics and Context (2012).
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BA, MA, PhD (York University), Associate Professor. Her areas of interest are
20th Century American Literature; Victorian Literature and Children’s Literature.
Her book, Between the Angle and the Curve: Mapping Gender, Race, Space,
and Identity in Cather and Morrison (2009), explores the intersection of
identity and setting in the fiction of Cather and Morrison. Her publications
include chapters on Cather’s The Song of the Lark; Alice Walker’s The Color
Purple; the critical legacy of The Madwoman in the Attic; L. M. Montgomery’s
Anne of Green Gables; Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and MirrorMask” ; and the
Lemony Snicket Series.
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ZIMMERMAN, CYNTHIA
BA, MA, PhD (University of Toronto), Senior Scholar. Courses most frequently
taught: The Literary Text, Contemporary Women Playwrights, English-speaking
Theatre in Canada, Auto/biography and Drama. Publications: The Work:
Conversations with English-Canadian Playwrights (with R. Wallace);
Contemporary British Drama, 1970-90 (with H. Zeifman); Taking the Stage:
Selections from Plays by Canadian Women, Playwriting Women: Female Voices
in English Canada; three volumes of Sharon Pollock: Collected Works; The Betty
Lambert Reader; and Reading Carol Bolt, published in 2010; as well as various
articles, interviews and dictionary entries.
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COURSE LISTINGS
3360 6.00
Modern Literature in English
Not offered
3470 6.00
American Literature
D. Russell
3555 3.00
Bede, Battles & Beowulf: Anglo-Saxon
Literature in Translation
Not offered
1601 6.00
The Structure of English*
TBA
1602 6.00
The Literary Text: Genres & Approaches
TBA
1603 6.00
Introduction to Linguistics
TBA
3604 3.00 (F)
Varieties of English*
TBA
2611 3.00 (F)
Phonetics*
TBA
3605 6.00
Old English
Not offered
2611 3.00 (W)
Phonetics*
TBA
3606 3.00
Learning English as a Second Language*
Not offered
2613 3.00 (W)
Phonology
TBA
3607 6.00
Literary Stylistics
TBA
2632 6.00
Western Drama: Ancient to Modern
TBA
3608 6.00
Modern English
Not offered
2633 6.00
The Literary Tradition of English
TBA
3609 3.00
Pragmatics
Not offered
2634 3.00 (W)
Language and Society*
M.C. Davidson
3610 3.00 (F)
Advanced English Syntax
TBA
2642 6.00
Canadian Literature
Not offered
3611 3.00 (W)
Semantics
TBA
2643 6.00
Poetry and Poetics
TBA
3620 6.00
Reading Shakespeare
I. Djordjevic
2647 6.00
Studies in the Novel
Not offered
3621 3.00
Media
Not offered
2681 3.00 (W)
Rhetoric and Composition
TBA
3622 6.00
Postcolonial Drama in English
Not offered
3205 6.00
Postcolonial Literatures and Theory
TBA
3625 3.00
Medieval English Drama
Not offered
3210 6.00
Chaucer and Medieval Literature
D. J. Clipsham
3630 3.00
English Renaissance Drama
Not offered
3220 6.00
English Renaissance Literature
I. Djordjevic
3635 6.00
Modern and Contemporary Drama
TBA
3230 6.00
Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
Not offered
3636 6.00
Children’s Literature
D. Russell
3240 6.00
Creative Writing
TBA
3650 6.00
Sociolinguistics*
Not offered
3322 3.00
Romantic and Victorian Poetry
Not offered
3655 6.00
Language Use in a Bilingual Setting*
Not offered
3330 6.00
19th-Century British Literature
D. Russell
3900 6.00
The Torah (The Five Books of Moses)
Not offered
3950 6.00
English-Speaking Theatre in Canada
Not offered
3955 6.00
Approaches to Theatre
See DRST Dept.
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4000 6.00
Faculty
4620 6.00
Contemporary Women Playwrights
TBA
4100 3.00/6.00 Directed Reading
Faculty
4621 6.00
Intercultural Performance Practices
See DRST Dept.
4230 6.00
Literary and Dramatic Criticism
Not offered
4625 6.00
Imagining the Past: Literary uses of
History in the Renaissance
Not offered
4232 3.00
Canadian Writers’ ‘Take’ on the World
Not offered
4235 3.00
Literature, Myth, History
Not offered
4642 6.00
Canadian Literature and the Great War
Lee Frew
4237 6.00
Literature of Incarceration
Not offered
4644 3.00
Not offered
4245 3.00
Adaptation Studies
Not offered
The Golden Age of Children’s Literature
(1863-1911)
4250 6.00
Studies in Genres
M.C. Davidson
4645 3.00
Canadian Drama on the Margins
Not offered
4275 6.00
From Slave to Author: African American
Narratives
Not offered
4655 3.00
A Tarnished Age: Dystopias for Children
Not offered
4340 6.00
Contemporary Literature
Not offered
4662 6.00
Early Modern Women Writers
Not offered
4450 6.00
Contemporary Canadian Literature
Not offered
4680 3.00
Medieval Comparative Literature
Not offered
4512 3.00
Advanced Studies in Discourse Analysis
Not offered
4681 3.00
Medieval Women’s Writing
Not offered
4560 3.00
Advanced Writing
Not offered
4695 3.00 (W)
English as a World Language*
B. Morgan
4605 3.00
Linguistic Theory
Not offered
4696 6.00
TEIL - Teaching English as an
International Language*
I. Martin
4606 6.00
History of the English Language
M.C. Davidson
4607 6.00
Systemic Functional Linguistics
Not offered
4608 3.00
Discourse Analysis
Not offered
4609 3.00
Advanced Phonetics and Phonology
Not offered
4610 3.00
Studies in Canadian English
Not offered
4612 3.00
Studies in Discourse Analysis: N. Theory
Not offered
4613 3.00
Children’s Discourse
Not offered
4617 3.00
Language Planning & Language Policy
Not offered
4619 6.00
Performing the Baroque
Not offered
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Note: an asterisk* indicates that the course is part of the Certificate Programme in
the Discipline of Teaching English as an International Language (see the certificate
page).
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
SUMMER 2015
EN 1601 6.00: THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH
Section A:
TBA, Tue. & Thu. 3:00-6:00
This course offers practical linguistic tools for describing contemporary English,
both spoken and written, including its sound system, vocabulary, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, style, and usage. Some attention is given to analyzing both
literary texts and learner language.
Note: D-TEIL Certificate students should verify the Lecture Schedule for Course
Section Enrolment, since Section A is strongly recommended for D-TEIL Certificate
students.
This course considers English grammar from a broad perspective, and involves
examination of not only the sentence structure of the language, but also its sound
system, how it has changed over time, the range of its variation, both social and
geographical, and its current role as a major language in the world.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN/SOSC 1601 6.00.
Course credit exclusions: GL/EN 2520 3.00, GL/EN 2540 3.00, AP/LING 2060
6.00 and GL/EN 2608 6.00.
This course is required for the D-TEIL Certificate.
This course is open to students in their first and second year.
EN 3636 6.00: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Section A: TBA, Mon. & Wed. 9:00-12:00
The course will consider what constitutes children’s literature, what distinguishes
it from adult literature, and how the adult writer views the child's world, as
demonstrated in the themes, characterization, and styles of the works studied.
This course focuses on children’s literature from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
We will explore possible ways of reading children’s literature taking into account
cultural and historical contexts and audiences. In addition to a wide range of works
of fiction, we will consider a variety of theoretical texts (available in a Course Kit)
which address such concerns as constructions of childhood, definitions of children’s
literature, gender roles, and the issue of power and childhood.
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FALL AND WINTER
Cross-listed to GL/HUMA 3636 6.00
Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 3840 6.00, GL/EN 4290 6.00 and GL/EN 3590
6.00.
EN 1601 6.00: THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
Section A:
Section B:
Section C:
TBA, Tuesday 12:00-3:00
TBA, Monday 3:00-6:00
TBA, Thursday 9:00-12:00
This course offers practical linguistic tools for describing contemporary English,
both spoken and written, including its sound system, vocabulary, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, style, and usage. Some attention is given to analyzing both
literary texts and learner language.
Note: D-TEIL Certificate students should verify the Lecture Schedule for Course
Section Enrolment, since Section A is strongly recommended for D-TEIL Certificate
students.
This course considers English grammar from a broad perspective, and involves
examination of not only the sentence structure of the language, but also its sound
system, how it has changed over time, the range of its variation, both social and
geographical, and its current role as a major language in the world.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN/SOSC 1601 6.00.
Course credit exclusions: GL/EN 2520 3.00, GL/EN 2540 3.00, AP/LING 2060
6.00 and GL/EN 2608 6.00.
This course is required for the D-TEIL Certificate.
This course is open to students in their first and second year.
EN 1602 6.00: THE LITERARY TEXT: GENRES AND APPROACHES
Lecture 01:
Tut 1:
Tut 2:
Tut 3:
Tut 4:
Tut 5
Tut 6: Back up
TBA, Wednesday
TBA, Wednesday
TBA, Wednesday
TBA, Wednesday
TBA, Wednesday
TBA, Wednesday
TBA, Wednesday
12:00-2:00
2:00-3:00
2:00-3:00
2:00-3:00
3:00-4:00
3:00-4:00
3:00-4:00
A study of the special characteristics and functions of literary texts. Examples of
several literary genres are examined and students have the opportunity to
develop their abilities to read and interpret, to discuss and write about literature
in English.
Three main genres are dealt with in this course: poetry, prose fiction (novel and
short story), and drama. The aim is to build on students’ previous experience of
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English studies, to refine the sense of what critical questions are invited by different
sorts of literary texts, and of how such questions are effectively answered. Most of
the texts read in the course will be twentieth- and twenty-first-century works in
English, selected on the basis of their accessibility for contemporary Canadian
readers. Literary issues raised by a particular text, however, may be elucidated
through examination of earlier or different examples of the same genre (or
treatments of the same theme). The aim of such historical and theoretical back
grounding is explication of text. The study of literary history or literary theory, are
the focus of the second-year companion to the course, The Literary Tradition of
English (EN 2633 6.0), and other upper-level courses that study literature in
historical, cultural, theoretical, and other contexts.
Cross-listed to GL/HUMA 1602 6.00
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 1520 6.00.
Students normally complete this course before proceeding to GL/EN 2633 6.00.
This course is open to students in their first and second year.
EN 1603 6.00: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
Section A:
Section B:
TBA, Monday 9:00-12:00
TBA, Friday 12:00-3:00
This course introduces the theory and technique of linguistics with illustrations
mainly from English. Core areas of study will include phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax and semantics. Other areas include pragmatics, discourse
analysis and historical linguistics.
Linguistics is the systematic study of human language. Some say, linguistics is the
most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. It
appeals to students of computer science no less than to students of modern
languages or language majors. This course will investigate how language has
internal patternings, how verbal communication is organized on several different
levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), and how these levels interact.
The role of pragmatics in sentence interpretation, how language changes over time
and how it is used in social contexts will also be discussed. The course fulfils the
language requirement for English majors and constitutes and integral part of the
Linguistics programme.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN/SOSC 1603 6.00.
Course credit exclusions: GL/EN 2570 6.00, GL/EN 2570 3.00(EN) and AP/LING
1000 6.00 and GL/EN 2605 6.00 and GL/EN 1605 6.00.
This course is open to students in their first and second year.
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EN 2611 3.00: PHONETICS
Section A:
Section B:
TBA, Monday 12:00-3:00
TBA, Monday 12:00-3:00
in the Fall term
in the Winter term
This course offers an introduction to various aspects of phonetics (articulatory
and acoustic) with practice in discrimination and transcription of speech sounds,
with particular attention to, but not limited to, English.
Phonetics is described broadly as the scientific study of the characteristics of
human sound production abilities. More narrowly, it focuses especially on those
sounds actually used in speech, and provides methods and analytical techniques for
their description, classification and transcription. Phonetics is traditionally divided
into three branches, articulatory phonetics, acoustic and auditory phonetics. This
course focuses on the first of these three.
The course begins with a brief overview of the sounds of English, and how they are
produced and transcribed. This provides a basis for the study of general phonetics,
which examines the range of sounds used in the world’s languages. The course
concludes with a look at the relationship between phonetics and other branches of
language study, such as phonology and historical linguistics.
Throughout the course emphasis is placed on use of the International Phonetic
Alphabet. Extensive use of facilities in the multimedia lab allows students to work
at their own pace in learning to distinguish and produce the range of sounds used
in the world’s languages, as well as visualize other aspects of phonetics.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN 2611 3.00
Prerequisite: GL/EN1601 (formerly 2608) 6.00, or GL/EN1603 (formerly 2605 and
1603) 6.00 or an equivalent introductory linguistics course, or permission of the
Department.
Course credit exclusion: GL/FRAN 3621 3.00, GL/LIN 3621 3.00 and AP/LING
2110 3.00 and GL/EN 3603 3.00.
This course is open to students in their second and third year.
EN 2613 3.00: PHONOLOGY
TBA, Monday 12:00-3:00 in the Winter term
This course studies theoretical principles and practical techniques of phonological
analysis of data taken principally, but not exclusively, from English.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN 2613 3.00
Prerequisite: GL/EN 2611 3.00 or equivalent.
Course credit exclusion: AP/LING 2120 3.00 and GL/EN 3601 3.00.
This course is open to students in their second and third year.
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EN 2632 6.00: WESTERN DRAMA: ANCIENT TO MODERN
Course credit exclusion: AK/EN 2075 6.00, AP/EN 2250 6.00 and GL/EN 2510
6.00.
TBA, Wednesday 9:00 - 12:00
The course provides a text-based study of major theatrical achievements from
early Greece to the late nineteenth century. This study situates the plays within
cultural and historical contexts while focusing on practices of theatrical staging.
Additionally, our textual study will include some consideration of questions of
gender, ethnicity and race as part of our larger discussion of the cultural context in
which the plays were written.
Cross-listed to GL/DRST/HUMA 2632 6.00
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 2610 3.00 and GL/EN 2612 3.00.
This course is open to students in their second and third year.
EN 2633 6.00: THE LITERARY TRADITION OF ENGLISH
Lecture
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Tut 3: Back up
TBA, Tuesday
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12:00-2:00
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This course provides an introduction to the literary tradition of the English
language from the medieval period to the 21st century. Historical and cultural
backgrounds to major periods and authors are considered, and important works
are selected for close study.
The course introduces students to the history of English literature from its earliest
appearance in Old English, through the medieval, early modern and following
periods to the twentieth-first-century. Each era covered in the course is studied
primarily through the close reading of representative texts. Throughout the course
an outline of the historical and cultural background, along with a brief overview of
language history, offers a context for these works.
The aim of the course is to give students experience in reading texts from earlier
periods, knowledge of the frameworks of English literary history, and some basic
tools for discussing historical writings in context. For students planning to major
in English it provides a background and guide for further study. It is also intended
as a self-contained introduction for students with a general curiosity about
literature.
Cross-listed to GL/HUMA 2633 6.00
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GL/EN 2633 6.00.
This course is open to students in their second and third year.
EN 2634 3.00: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
M.C. Davidson, Wednesday 12:00-3:00 in the Winter term
This course offers an introduction to the study of language as a social
phenomenon and seeks to enhance students' awareness of their language
environment.
This course is an introduction to sociolinguistics, the study of language in its social
context. Topics covered include: language variation; the effect of social factors on
language variation; language change; the role of language in social stereotypes and
identity; the relationship of language to culture and thought; speech communities
and social networks; the linguistic consequences of language contact; linguistic
diversity and societal multilingualism; language planning and policy; language and
social problems.
Cross-listed to: GL/LIN/SOCI/SOSC 2634 3.0
Course credit exclusion: AP/LING 2400 3.00 and GL/EN 3632 3.00
This course is open to students in their second and third year.
EN 2642 6.00: CANADIAN LITERATURE
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course attempts to provide students with a solid background in Canadian
literature. Through a study of Canadian prose, poetry, drama and literary
criticism in English, the course examines the themes and techniques of selected
works from both literary and historical perspectives.
EN 2643 6.00: POETRY AND POETICS
TBA, Thursday 3:00-6:00
An introduction to the elements and types of poetry and to the special uses of
language that occur in poetry.
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Poetry and Poetics is a historic survey of poetry, and poetic technique. Tracing a
course from the dawn of speech in Africa to the rise of literacy in Mesopotamia
thousands of years ago, Poetry and Poetics looks at the origins of language and
writing and how they shaped the first poets. Then, the great epics; Gilgamesh, The
Odyssey and Beowulf will be studied, as well as individual poems, tracing the
development of poetics along the sweep of history from Greek to contemporary
times.
including Canada. The links between literature and broader cultural and political
struggles are closely examined.
Course credit exclusions: AK EN 2030 3.00, GL/EN 2010 3.00 (special topic
offered Fall 2004) and GL/EN 2590 6.00.
This course offers an introduction to postcolonial studies and a selective survey of
fiction, poetry, and drama from Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, Ireland, South Asia,
and the South Pacific. Topics under consideration may include the politics of the
English language; the role of artistic representation in imperial expansion; the
transformation of European literary forms; notions of exile, hybridity, and nation;
indigenous and diasporic writing; and the persistence of colonial discourses of race,
class, and gender. The course aims to introduce students to literary study in a
global rather than national context, and to enable them to develop critical skills and
a vocabulary to interpret texts that relate to the history of British imperialism.
This course is open to students in their second and third year.
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
EN 2647 6.00: STUDIES IN THE NOVEL
EN 3210 6.00: CHAUCER AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Not offered in 2015-2016
D. J. Clipsham, Tuesday 3:00-6:00
A study of ten to fourteen novels in English from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
approached both in cultural context and as representative of the history and
development of the genre.
EN 2681 3.00: RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION
TBA, Thursday 12:00-3:00 in the Winter term
This course introduces students to rhetoric and composition. Students will study
the principal varieties of academic writing. The course will focus on writing as a
process. Attention will also be given to critical reading and oral communications.
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 2010 3.00 (special topic offered Fall 2004) and
GL/EN 2585 3.00.
This course is open to students in their second year and third year.
A study of Chaucer's works. Attention is paid not only to Chaucer's own writings
but also to works illustrating the historical and literary context in which he wrote.
Chaucer is usually categorized as a writer of the late medieval period. At the same
time the Italian writers, whose work he often drew on, are generally placed in the
context of the earliest phase of the Renaissance. We will look at Chaucer’s writings
in relation to the many and varied literary traditions he drew on. As we discuss his
characteristic transformations of this material, we will try to articulate how his
poetry expresses the development of modernity in Western culture.
The focus of the course will be a careful reading of Chaucer’s poetry, in particular
the following:
The Book of the Duchess
The House of Fame
The Parliament of Fowls
EN 3205 6.00: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES AND THEORY
Troilus and Criseyde
TBA, Thursday 12:00-3:00
The Canterbury Tales
This course introduces students to key texts, authors, theorists, and concepts in
postcolonial studies that pertain to the former regions of the British Empire,
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
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EN 3220 6.00: ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
EN 3322 3.00: ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN POETRY
I. Djordjevic, Wednesday 12:00-3:00
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course studies English poetry and prose 1500-1660
This course focuses on nineteenth-century British poetry, with an emphasis on the
major poets of the Romantic and Victorian periods. The authors and their works
are considered in their socio-cultural and historical contexts, and a variety of
theoretical approaches.
A study of the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries excluding the
drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Students have the opportunity to
select authors for study in depth. The course focuses on the non-dramatic literature
of the English Renaissance, 1500-1660. The study of a broad selection of authors
and works from the period will introduce the main cultural, political, and
ideological trends of the Tudor, Jacobean, and Caroline eras.
Co-requisite: GL/EN 2633 6.00
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
EN 3330 6.00: 19TH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
D. Russell, Tuesday 12:00-3:00
A study of the literature of the nineteenth century, emphasizing the major poets
and novelists. Similarities and differences between the Romantics and Victorians
will be explored. Students have the opportunity to select authors for study in
depth.
EN 3230 6.00: RESTORATION AND 18TH-CENTURY LITERATURE
Not offered in 201-2016
A study of the literature of the eighteenth century. Students have the opportunity to
select authors for study in depth.
EN 3240 6.00: CREATIVE WRITING
TBA, Tuesday 3:00-6:00
This course is designed for students who are already motivated creative writers
who wish to improve their skills and share their work in a seminar and workshop
setting.
This course is an in-depth study of the literature of the British Romantic and
Victorian periods. The course will include representative works of fiction and
poetry from throughout the century. It begins with the literature of the period,
usually titled the Romantic period. Major concerns in the literature and culture of
this period are: the relationship between man and nature; art and society;
sensibility and civility; poetry as politics; the social status of women; the outsider
(whether monster, lunatic, criminal, child or rebel); theories of the imagination;
and poetic experimentation. Poetic genres that will be discussed are lyric, ballad,
ode and sonnet, as well as fictional genres such as the gothic novel and the novel of
manners. With the movement into the Victorian Period, key concepts that will be
explored include: the changing role of nature and landscape in relation to science
and technology; questions of labor, class, and political reform attendant to the
Industrial Revolution; the expanding and contracting global influence of the British
Empire; and evolving ideas of gender and sexuality.
The first term will incorporate a series of lectures on the craft of writing as well as
student seminars on individual writers. It will culminate in a test. The second term
will consist of a creative writing workshop facilitating in-class improvement of
writing skills. Final grades will be based on test, class work and a final portfolio.
Course credit exclusion; AK/EN 3620 6.00, GL/EN 3310 6.00, GL/EN 3320 6.00
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
Course Credit Exclusion: GL/EN 2560 6.0.
Permission of the instructor.
EN 3360 6.00: MODERN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
Not offered in 2015-2016
A study of major British and American writers of the modern period (1900 1960). Fiction and poetry will be examined in terms of their radical interpretation
of the human condition through revolutionary artistic technique. Developments in
fine art, architecture and psychology will also be considered.
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EN 3470 6.00: AMERICAN LITERATURE
EN 3605 6.00: OLD ENGLISH
D. Russell, Wednesday 12:00-3:00
Not offered in 2015-2016
A study of American literature from its pre-colonial origins into the 20th century.
This course introduces students to the description of English in the period before
the Norman conquest and studies a variety of prose and verse texts. Some
attention is given to the cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England.
In this course we will survey the diverse scope of American literature from its
precolonial origins to the present. We will consider a wide range of questions and
issues as we approach this literature, including the ways in which American writers
across these periods use literary innovation to represent and respond to issues such
as modernization and urbanization, the changing shape of racial, ethnic, and
gender relations, multiple world wars, the emergence of the American
counterculture, and the increasing technological saturation of American life.
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
EN 3606 3.00: LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course studies the process of acquisition of a second language, considered in
the light of relevant theory and research, and the analysis of linguistic,
psychological, sociocultural and other factors in second language learning
EN 3555 3.00: BEDE, BATTLES & BEOWULF: ANGLO-SAXON
LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Not offered in 2015-2016
EN 3607 6.00: LITERARY STYLISTICS
This course focuses on literature in Old English (c.700-1100), including poetry,
prose chronicles, letters, and the earliest English epic, Beowulf, all of which will be
read in translation. The cultural context will also be considered, especially recent
archeological discoveries.
TBA, Tuesday 12:00-3:00
EN 3604 3.00: VARIETIES OF ENGLISH
Literary Stylistics is the application of linguistic theory to the study of literature.
This course examines what constitutes a ‘literary text’, going back to the original
Jacobsonean notion that literary language focuses on language itself. It also
investigates the formal properties of literary texts, including meter, rhyme,
alliteration and general phonological pattern. The course will examine poetic form
from the narrative epic to the sonnet to today’s rap poetry. Literary devices such as
metaphor and metonymy will also be examined. There will also be close
investigation of the intersection between modern literary stylistics and semantic
and pragmatic theory, looking particularly at how speech act theory and politeness
theory can be applied to the analysis of literary texts. We shall also look broadly at
Narrative Theory as it pertains particularly to our understanding of literary
discourse.
TBA, Wednesday 3:00-6:00 in the Fall term
Within a linguistic framework, the course analyzes written and oral varieties of
English differences in language and language use based on social, temporal,
geographical, institutional and individual circumstances.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN 3604 3.00
Prerequisite: GL/EN1601 6.00, or GL/EN1603 6.00, or an equivalent introductory
linguistics course, or permission of the Department.
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 2520 3.00
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
Differing concepts and theories of style and models for analysis are discussed and
illustrated by a linguistic and interpretive examination of a range of literary texts,
prose and verse.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN 3607 6.00.
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 3510 6.00
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
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This course offers an examination of modern linguistic approaches to semantics.
EN 3608 6.00: MODERN ENGLISH
Not offered in 2015-2016
A study of the phonology, grammar and lexis of present-day English using major
treatments of English grammar from scholarly traditional to transformationalgenerative.
EN 3609 3.00: PRAGMATICS
Not offered in 2015-2016
Pragmatics locates meaning within and between speakers as well as the contexts
of situation in which they speak. This course investigates speech act theory,
politeness theory, relevance theory and cross-linguistic pragmatics. The problem
of intentionality as well as non-literal uses of language is explored.
The discipline and techniques of linguistics are directed to assist us in making
statements of meaning. Indeed, the main concern of descriptive linguistics is to
make statements of meaning. The nature of meaning, traditional and modern
approaches to the study of meaning, and the essential components of a semantic
theory are some of the topics which will be discussed during the course.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN 3611 3.00
Prerequisite: GL/EN1601 6.00, or GL/EN1603 3.00, or an equivalent introductory
linguistics course, or permission of the Department.
Course credit exclusion: AP/LING 3150 3.00
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
EN 3620 6.00: READING SHAKESPEARE
EN 3610 3.00: ADVANCED ENGLISH SYNTAX
I.Djordjevic, Tuesday 9:00-12:00
TBA, Monday 3:00-6:00 in the Fall term
A study of a representative selection of Shakespeare’s play texts, with particular
attention to how we produce their meanings.
This course offers an advanced study of English syntax using approaches to
investigation and description provided by such theoretical models as
transformational-generative, systemic and stratificational.
The most prominent focus of linguistic research has been the syntactic component
(decades of research behind mainstream Generative Grammar, associated with
Noam Chomsky and his close collaborators). The latter will be the main focus of
the course, with some attention given to alternative generative theories (such as
those developed by Culicover and Jackendoff in Simpler Syntax, first published
2005).
Cross-listed to GL/LIN 3610 3.00
Prerequisite: GL/EN1601 6.00, or GL/EN1603 6.00, or an equivalent introductory
linguistics course, or permission of the Department.
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 3570 3.00
This course studies how theatrical and interpretive meanings are made through
various ways of reading Shakespearean scripts. We will study the textual and
performative aspects of twelve of Shakespeare’s works, and explore the various
contexts that inform our understanding of Shakespeare’s oeuvre in his own time as
well as our own, by considering factors such as his socio-political and cultural
background, the nature of early modern theatre, Renaissance poetics and rhetorical
theory, and numerous modern and postmodern theories and interpretive
performances.
The recommended edition of Shakespeare’s plays is The Norton Shakespeare,
which is available in the campus bookstore. Also acceptable are critical editions of
the individual plays published by Oxford, Cambridge, Arden, and Signet.
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
Cross-listed to GL/DRST 3620 6.00
Prerequisite: 6 credits in literature or drama studies.
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 3420 6.00.
EN 3611 3.00: SEMANTICS
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
TBA, Monday 3:00-6:00 in the Winter term
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EN 3621 3.00: MEDIA
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This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
Not offered in 2015-2016
EN 3636 6.00: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
This course examines the cultural and historical features of media production,
reception and adaptation through such topics as nationalism, internationalism,
language, gender and issues of representation and authority.
EN 3622 6.00: POSTCOLONIAL DRAMA IN ENGLISH
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course examines contemporary English-speaking postcolonial drama issuing
from one or a combination of the following regions: South and West Africa,
Southeast Asia, India, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and Canada.
EN 3625 3.00: MEDIEVAL ENGLISH DRAMA
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course studies the early development of English drama from the Biblical
cycles of the medieval craft guilds, and the moralities and interludes, through to
the humanist drama of the first half of the 16th century.
D. Russell, Monday 9:00-12:00
The course will consider what constitutes children’s literature, what distinguishes
it from adult literature, and how the adult writer views the child's world, as
demonstrated in the themes, characterization, and styles of the works studied.
This course focuses on children’s literature from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
We will explore possible ways of reading children’s literature taking into account
cultural and historical contexts and audiences. In addition to a wide range of works
of fiction, we will consider a variety of theoretical texts (available in a Course Kit)
which address such concerns as constructions of childhood, definitions of children’s
literature, gender roles, and the issue of power and childhood.
Cross-listed to GL/HUMA 3636 6.00
Course credit exclusions: AP/EN 3840 6.00, GL/EN 4290 6.00 and GL/EN 3590
6.00.
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
EN 3650 6.00: SOCIOLINGUISTICS
EN 3630 3.00: ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA
Not offered in 2015-2016
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course studies major plays from the flowering of the London professional
theatre between 1576 and 1642.
This course examines language in its social context with emphasis on language
varieties, meaning in situations, language and social organization, and individual
linguistic skills.
EN 3635 6.00: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
EN 3655 6.00: LANGUAGE USE IN A BILINGUAL SETTING/USAGES
LINGUISTIQUES EN CONTEXTE BILINGUE
TBA, Thursday 9:00-12:00
Not offered in 2015-2016
This study of modern and contemporary drama in Europe and North America
relates the practice of theatrical production to the literary features of plays within
their historical and cultural contexts.
Within an applied linguistics framework, this course explores bilingual language
use with particular focus on the English/French context in Canada. Topics include
definitions of bilingualism and its assessment as well as issues surrounding
individual and societal bilingualism.
Cross-listed to GL/DRST 3635 6.00
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 2530 6.00, GL/EN 2630 6.00 and
GL/EN 2635 6.00
EN 3900 6.00: THE TORAH (THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES)
Not offered in 2015-2016
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An introduction to the Hebrew Bible, and to the thought and culture of ancient
Israel, through the study of the Five Books of Moses, particularly the books of
Genesis and Exodus.
EN 4237 6.00: LITERATURE OF INCARCERATION
EN 3950 6.00: ENGLISH-SPEAKING THEATRE IN CANADA
The course examines primarily through novels and memoirs, the specialized
aesthetics of the individual’s experience of institutional incarceration, whether
chosen or coerced. Areas of examination include literary aesthetics, psychological
adaptation, historical contexts and reflection, and self-definition.
Not offered in 2015-2016
Not offered in 2015-2016
A study of the development and present state of English-speaking theatre in
Canada, focusing on the major companies and the emergence of contemporary
Canadian drama.
EN 4245 3.00: ADAPTATION STUDIES: LITERATURE AND FILM
EN 3955 6.00: APPROACHES TO THEATRE
Not offered in 2015-2016
Please see the Drama Studies Department
This course grounds students in interdisciplinary methods for examining the
relationship between literature, film and other forms of media in popular culture.
Literary texts and their media adaptations may vary with each offering of the
course.
This course will introduce students to theatre by the study of theoretical and
practical approaches to production. First-term classes and workshops will
culminate in a second-term production.
This course is open to students in their second, third and fourth year.
EN 4250 6.00: STUDIES IN GENRES (EPIC AND ROMANCE)
EN 4230 6.00: LITERARY AND DRAMATIC CRITICISM
M.C. Davidson, Tuesday 6:00-9:00
Not offered in 2015-2016
An intensive study of a particular variety of literature such as Satire, Romance,
Tragedy, or Comedy, concentrating on the definition and discussion of theme and
form.
A study of the major texts of criticism from the classical to the post-modern
period.
EN 4232 3.00: CANADIAN WRITERS’ ‘TAKE’ ON THE WORLD
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course will study texts in which Canadian writers, born in or outside of the
country, explore other parts of the modern world in novels, stories and poems.
EN 4235 3.00: LITERATURE, MYTH, HISTORY
Themes in the genres of epic and romance in medieval and early modern English
literature centre on heroism, courtly love and encounters with the monstrous and
supernatural. This course focuses on these themes through traditional as well as
more recent literary critical approaches which open this literature up to analysis on
migration, nationalism, gender and the post-medieval reception of Old and Middle
English literature. Classes are devoted to the close reading of primary texts and
discussion based on secondary readings. Grading overall includes six responses to
discussion questions, three quizzes, a final exam, one short essay and one long
essay. Texts: Alliterative Morte Arthure, Beowulf (in translation), Judith (in
translation), Bevis of Hamptoun, The Fairie Queene, Troileus and Crisyede, Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight).
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course will study the ways in which contemporary authors make use of myth,
history, and earlier literary texts in their novels, plays, and stories.
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 4250 6.0 (FW 2005-2006, 2008-2009, 20112012,2013-2014)
This course is open to students in their third and fourth year.
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EN 4275 6.00: FROM SLAVE TO AUTHOR: AFRICAN AMERICAN
NARRATIVES
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EN 4606 6.00: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
M.C. Davidson, Thursday 12:00-3:00
Not offered in 2015-2016
Through the study of African American autobiography, this course examines the
ways slave narratives establish a black literary tradition and how historical
referents in the fictional works of contemporary African American writers act as
linguistic sites of resistance and agency.
EN 4340 6.00: CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Not offered in 2015-2016
A study of contemporary fiction and poetry, in English and in translation.
EN 4450 6.00: CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN LITERATURE
Not offered in 2015-2016
A study of modern and contemporary developments in the literature of English
Canada.
The course examines the cultural and linguistic history of English from its
regional origin in the fifth century to its global presence today.
This course traces the changing structures of English from its early medieval
beginnings as a heavily inflected language. In also examining the changing status of
English from an exclusively native language to a non-native global language today,
we consider the cultural and colonial contexts through which English has become
the language of technology and international communication. We will also consider
how media depicts and popularizes varieties of English in productions from
Bollywood and Hollywoood.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN 4606 6.0.
Prerequisite: GL/EN1601 6.0, or GL/EN1603 6.0, or an equivalent introductory
linguistics course, or permission of the instructor.
Course credit exclusion with AP/LING 3060 3.00.
This course is open to students in their third and fourth year.
EN 4607 6.00: SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
EN 4512 3.00: ADVANCED STUDIES IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course investigates topics in discourse analysis such as gender and discourse,
children's discourse, narrative theory, human/pongid communication, ideology,
and Applied Discourse Analysis.
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course will present the theory of functional linguistics developed by Michael
Halliday. From context of situation to medium of expression: semantics,
lexicogrammar, phonology and phonetics as the symbolic chain through which we
produce meaningful sounds to carry on life in our various social contexts.
EN 4608 3.00: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
EN 4560 3.00: ADVANCED WRITING
Not offered in 2015-2016
Not offered in 2015-2016
In any particular year, this course will focus on one or more genres, allowing
students to do advanced writing in poetry, prose, drama, media, non-fiction (e.g.
criticism).
This course analyzes theories and descriptive frameworks for the study of
connected discourse. Linguistic structures beyond the sentence will be examined in
both literary and non-literary texts.
EN 4609 3.00: ADVANCED PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
EN 4605 3.00: LINGUISTIC THEORY
Not offered in 2015-2016
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course studies the major contemporary models of language and linguistic
theories.
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analysis and display. We will then use the acquired techniques to study
intonational meaning in spoken Canadian English texts.
then stage key scenes to explore the interaction between original and
contemporary practices.
EN 4610 3.00: STUDIES IN CANADIAN ENGLISH
EN 4620 6.00: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS
Not offered in 2015-2016
TBA, Monday 12:00-3:00
A study of literary and non-literary varieties of Canadian English
This course studies selected plays by contemporary American, British and
Canadian women playwrights. Primary methodology is close reading. Attention
will also be paid to how theatrical and cultural contexts and material
circumstances are embedded in the representations of gender.
EN 4612 3.00: STUDIES IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course covers linguistic approaches to narrative discourse, both literary and
non-literary. It examines various linguistic theories of narrative and applies
these to the study of texts.
EN 4613 3.00: CHILDREN’S DISCOURSE
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course analyses children's discourse. Children's discourse encompasses a
range of registers including baby talk, pretend-play, narrative, classroom talk,
"girl talk" and jock talk. Gender and the bias of gender will also be explored as
will the development of children's registers in a bilingual context.
EN 4617 3.00: LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE POLICY
This course studies a selection of plays created by contemporary women writers.
What becomes quickly evident is that there is no such thing as a ‘woman’s play.’
What does exist, are many different kinds of plays by women. There is wide variety
in their concerns and their craft. Style ranges from the performance piece to the
traditional script, from the realistic to the symbolic and experimental.
Their concerns are also refreshingly diverse. Their plays are as distinctive and
various as the women who write them. What unites them is that now, in an
unselfconscious way, women are at the centre of the stage—women characters,
women’s dilemmas, their subjectivity and perspective. This course gives dramatic
testimony to the breadth and diversity of current women’s writing for the stage.
The tentative reading list includes plays by Canadians Sharon Pollock, Judith
Thompson, Betty Lambert, Wendy Lill, Djanet Sears, Linda Griffiths and Morwyn
Brebner. Other titles will be selected from recent works by Caryl Churchill, Sarah
Daniels, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Ntozake Shange, Paula Vogel, Margaret Edson,
Lisa Loomer or others.
Not offered in 2015-2016
Cross-listed to GL/CDNS/DRST/WMST 4620 6.00.
This course offers an introduction to the field of language policy and language
planning through a discussion of principles and practices covering the field’s main
topics, such as language ideologies; standardization; status, corpus, acquisition and
shift-reversing planning at supra-national, national and sub-national levels.
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN/WMST 3011 6.00 (2000-2001),
GL/EN/DRST/CDNS/WMST 3615 3.00, GL/EN/DRST/CDNS/WMST 3615 6.00.
This course is open to students in their third and fourth year.
EN 4619 6.00: PERFORMING THE BAROQUE
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course has two components. First, it offers historical and analytical tools to
study the play, spectacles and performance practices of the Baroque. The students
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EN 4621 6.00: CURRENT INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE
PRACTICES
Please see the Drama Studies Department
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Intercultural theatre practices have become a major phenomenon on the world
stage. This advanced course provides an historical and theoretical framework to
understand these intercultural practices and examines how these practices shape
performances and productions today.
EN 4644 3.00: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
(1863-1911)
This course is open to students in their third and fourth year.
This course focuses on the "Golden Age" of Children's literature (1863-1911).
Landmark texts are considered in terms of their innovation, experimentation and
enduring influence. Cultural, historical, and sociopolitical contexts are considered.
EN 4625 6.00: IMAGINING THE PAST LITERARY USES OF HISTORY
IN THE RENAISSANCE
Not offered in 2015-2016
The course explores the literary uses of history and the meaning of historical
memory in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by
focusing on a variety of authors and popular Renaissance literary forms.
Not offered in 2015-2016
EN 4645 3.00: CANADIAN DRAMA ON THE MARGINS
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course studies plays by minority artists who dramatize their stories and their
issues from the unique perspective of their particular marginalized group.
EN 4642 6.0: CANADIAN LITERATURE AND THE GREAT WAR
EN 4655 3.00: A TARNISHED AGE: DYSTOPIAS FOR CHILDREN
Lee Frew, Monday 12:00-3:00
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course evaluates Canadian concepts of nationalism, historiography, and
remembrance by examining Canadian literature pertaining to the First World War
(1914-1918). A variety of genres produced by combatants, individuals on the home
front, veterans, and contemporary writers are considered.
This course focuses on the "Third Golden Age" of Children's Literature. The
darkness and violence of contemporary dystopias for young adults is highly
politicized. Cultural, historical, and sociopolitical contexts and rhetorical
strategies are considered.
The Canadian cultural response to the First World War stands out from those of the
war’s other belligerents, whose remembrances of the atrocities of 1914-1918 tend to
be the ones of unequivocal loss and morning. In Canada, both the historiographical
and popular consensus on the cultural significance of the First World War is that it
served as a crucible in which both Canadian values and national identity were
forged. At the centenary of this traumatic and transformative period of modern
history, this course examines the ways in which Canadian literature has engaged
with history, collective memory, and a compelling national mythology to offer
competing narratives about Canada’s participation in this conflict. Surveying prose,
poetry, and drama produced by combatants, individuals on the home front, the
war's veterans, and contemporary writers working long after the Armistice, this
course aims to scrutinize Canadian notions of national identity, historiography, and
civic remembrance. In order to evaluate the position of the Great War in Canadian
culture, European and American works are also studied.
Cross-Listed to GL/CDNS 4642 6.0
EN 4662 6.00: EARLY MODERN WOMEN WRITERS
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course introduces students to the writings of early modern women (15001700). Texts are considered in terms of their relationship to each other, to
contemporary male texts, and to the historical context.
EN 4680 3.00: MEDIEVAL COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Not offered in 2015-2016
Epic and romance in English and in French provide a focus for the course. Texts
from other literatures and in other literary forms will also be studied by way of
comparison.
This course is open to students in their third and fourth year
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EN 4681 3.00: MEDIEVAL WOMEN’S WRITING
Not offered in 2015-2016
This course explores texts in a variety of genres by women from Late Antiquity to
the Early Modern Period. The strategies and techniques used by women in their
attempts to set forth their views will also be considered.
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D-TEIL), it builds upon various aspects of the students’ background knowledge as
acquired in the 2000 and 3000-level courses which form part of the Certificate
programme. The teaching practicum is normally fulfilled in an international setting
and is an integral component of the course. It involves a 2-to-3-week group trip to
Cuba following the spring examination period. Students requiring financial
support may apply for a York International Mobility Award to help offset costs.
Cross-listed to GL/LIN 4696 6.00.
EN 4695 3.00: ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE
Prerequisite: GL/EN 1601 6.0
B. Morgan, Wednesday 3:00-6:00 in the Winter term
The course examines a number of varieties of English in the world today from
three major standpoints: their historical development, their social and
geographical deployment, and their linguistic characteristics.
This course will examine the development and current state of English as a world
language, particularly in the context of cultural, economic and political
globalization. The emphasis of the course will be on the external or ecological
aspects of the topic rather than formal linguistic aspects, by paying attention to
historical, socio-political and geographical issues. Drawing on these perspectives,
we will examine the global and local implications for English Language Teaching.
Cross-listed to GL/ILST/LIN 4695 3.00.
Pre or Co-requisite: GL/EN 2611 3.00 and 3 credits from GL/EN 2634 3.00, GL/EN
3604 3.0, GL/EN 3606 6.0 GL/EN 3650 6.00 and GL/EN 3655 6.00.
Course credit exclusion: GL/EN 4012 3.00 (Fall 1993), GL/EN 4596 6.00 (EN).
This course is only open to Certificate Students, and only to those who have
achieved a grade of at least C+ in each of the Certificate courses taken prior to
entering EN 4696.
All non-hispanophone Certificate students must have completed or be enrolled
in a 6.0 credits Introductory Spanish course (or equivalent) in order to participate
in EN 4696 and its international practicum.
Prerequisite: At least 12 credits in linguistics offered in English or another
language, six credits of which must be from an introductory course in linguistics.
Permission of the instructor required.
This course is open to students in their third and fourth year.
EN 4696 6.00: TEIL—TEACHING ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL
LANGUAGE
I. Martin, Friday 9:30-12:30
This course surveys current principles and practices of teaching English in settings
outside Canada. Besides the methodological instruction at Glendon, an integral
component of the course is a teaching practicum, normally fulfilled in an
international setting, held for 2-3 weeks following the Spring exam period.
This course surveys current principles and practices of teaching English
internationally. As one of the two 4000-level courses required to complete the
Certificate in the Discipline of Teaching English as an International Language (Cert.
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INDIVIDUAL STUDIES/HONOURS
THESIS GUIDELINES
EN 4000 6.00: HONOURS THESIS
Members of the department
Students may prepare a thesis on a particular subject. They must have the
agreement of a member of the department to direct the thesis and of a second
reader to aid in evaluation. The names of the faculty members and the title of the
thesis should be registered with the Academic Services.
For further information please consult the Chair of the Department.
EN 4100 3.00/6.00: DIRECTED READING
Members of the department
Students will do independent reading and/or research, together with written
assignments, under the guidance of a member of the English Department.
Permission of the Department is required.
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CERTIFICATE IN THE DISCIPLINE OF
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND
LANGUAGE (D-TEIL)
Have you thought about travelling overseas after graduation? Does the idea of
living abroad to learn about other cultures and languages appeal to you?
The Certificate in the Discipline of Teaching English as an International Language
(D-TEIL) has been designed to help you enter into the international field of English
language teaching, and to increase your opportunities of working overseas in a
growing professional field.
In this program, you will be introduced to general principles of linguistics
applicable to language teaching; the latest notions of language learning; concepts of
language in society and bilingualism; the history and impact of English as a global
language, including both observation and a teaching practicum.
The Certificate consists of 24 credits – all of which also count as English (EN)
credits and as Linguistics and Language Studies (LIN) credits: 21 obligatory credits,
plus 3 credits to be chosen from a list of “language and society” themed courses.
The Certificate typically takes three years to complete.
Students should take EN 1601 as soon as possible, since it is a pre-requisite to
upper-year courses. Be advised that the fourth-year courses are only offered in oddnumbered years (2013, 2015, etc.). Please note that this certificate is intended for
those interested in teaching English abroad to adults. It is not intended for those
wishing to teach ESL in Canada.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Candidates must:
Be enrolled at Glendon or another faculty of York University OR have completed a
university degree at an accredited institution.
Please note:
Not every course is offered every year. Please refer to the current offerings of this
mini-calendar.
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The course EN 4696 6.0 is only open to Certificate Students, and only to those who
have achieved a grade of at least C+ in each of the Certificate courses taken prior to
entering EN 4696.
Please note that all non-hispanophone Certificate students must have completed
or be enrolled in a 6.0 credits Introductory Spanish course (or equivalent) in order
to participate in EN 4696 and its international practicum.
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For more information about the program, contact:
Professor Ian Martin
Coordinator, D-TEIL Certificate
English Department, C216 York Hall Glendon Campus
2275 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M6
Telephone: (416) 487-6713
E-mail: [email protected]
THE REQUIRED TEACHING PRACTICUM
A teaching practicum, normally fulfilled in an international setting, is an integral
component of the course EN 4696 6.0. This practicum is part of an academic
exchange agreement between York University and the E.A. Varona Pedagogical
University in Havana, Cuba, and involves all students enrolled in the EN 4696 6.0
course for 3 weeks, at the end of April and the first week of May.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
This certificate consists of 24 credits to be taken from the following:
21 obligatory credits:
EN/LIN/SOSC 1601 6.0
The Structure of English
EN/LIN 2611 3.0
Phonetics
EN/LIN 3606 3.0
Learning ESL
EN/ ILST/ LIN 4695 3.0
English as a World Language
EN/LIN 4696 6.0
Teaching English as an International Language (*)
Students currently registered at York University (Glendon or other faculties)
should contact:
(*) SP 1000 6.0
Academic Services
C102 York Hall
Glendon Campus
Telephone: (416) 487-6715
Introductory Spanish (or equivalent) is a pre- or corequisite to EN/LIN 4696, for all non-hispanophone
students.
3 credits to be chosen from any one of these courses:
EN//LIN/SOCI/SOSC 2634 3.0
Language & Society
Non-York University students should contact:
EN/LIN 3604 3.0
Varieties of English
EN/LIN/SOCI 3650 6.0
Sociolinguistics
EN/FRAN/LIN 3655 6.0
Language Use in a Bilingual Setting
Students requiring financial support may apply for a York International Mobility
Award (YIMA), which covers a substantial portion of the costs of Toronto Havana
air fare. In addition, the class will be expected to participate in fundraising
activities. Any student, for whom this requirement presents an impediment, should
contact the Certificate Coordinator as early as possible.
HOW TO APPLY
Student Recruitment & Applicant Relations
B108 York Hall
Glendon Campus
2275 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M6
Telephone: (416) 487-6710
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.glendon.yorku.ca
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Note:
Students typically take the courses over a three-year period, in the order given.
A minimum grade of C+ is required in each of the Cert D-TEIL courses.
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DEPARTMENTAL SCHOLARSHIPS &
AWARDS
The English Department awards the following annually:
JANET WARNER TRAVEL AWARD
This award has been established to honor the memory of our Glendon colleague,
Blake scholar and novelist, Janet Warner, who, herself a great traveler, felt travel
was enriching.
This award will be presented annually to an undergraduate student at Glendon for
travel within Canada or internationally for research purposes. Recipients must have
completed between 12 and 24 credits in English, have a minimum GPA of 7.50
(B+), be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or protected person and a resident
of Ontario who demonstrates financial need.
The purpose of the award is to aid a Glendon student who wishes to travel
somewhere outside of Toronto with an academic aim in mind. This could include
such things as travels to libraries or archives for research purposes, or other travels
which could, at least in part, be justified on academic grounds. The money would
be available for bus/train or air fare, for accommodation expenses, or other related
expenses such as photocopies and duplication fees for research projects.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT BOOK PRIZE
This prize recognizes the high achievement of a student majoring in English. This
prize is given at the June convocation ceremony.
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IAN MARTIN D-TEIL BOOK PRIZE
This prize recognizes the high achievement of a student majoring in English taking
the D-TEIL certificate, who has the highest GPA in D-TEIL courses. This prize is
given at the June convocation ceremony.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT LINGUISTICS BOOK PRIZE
This prize recognizes the high achievement of a student majoring in English who
has the highest GPA in Linguistics courses. This prize is given at the June
convocation ceremony.
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ACADEMIC ADVISING & RESOURCES
Glendon's Academic Services provides a range of registration and support services
to students. This office is responsible for maintaining the integrity of student
academic records and offers information on University and College rules and
regulations, courses and registration, grade reporting and degree audit, graduation
and transcripts, and academic advising. You will be able to obtain information on
all academic matters from initial registration through to graduation.
ACADEMIC SERVICES
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT BP NICHOL BOOK PRIZE
This prize recognizes the high achievement of a student in the Creative Writing
course. This prize is given at the June convocation ceremony.
Room C102 York Hall
2275 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M4N 3M6
Canada
Telephone: (416) 487-6715
Fax: (416) 487-6813
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.glendon.yorku.ca/servicesacademiques
QUICK LINKS:
Undergraduate Calendar: http://calendars.registrar.yorku.ca/
Lecture Schedule: https://w2prod.sis.yorku.ca/Apps/WebObjects/cdm
Policies, Procedures and Regulations (incl. Academic Honesty):
http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/policies/index-policies.html
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